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CUMMING, Ga. – In a barn 40 miles north of downtown Atlanta, after barbecue was served and local dignitaries basted each other with encomia, Gov. Brian Kemp got down to brass tacks.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2022

Seen thus, the Alger books are not merely encomia on hard work but disturbing texts about power, desire, eros and fantasy — elements that are also integral to American perceptions of wealth.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

It has already been translated into six languages and is published with dust-jacket encomia from Russell Brand, Susan Sarandon, Brian Eno, Helena Kennedy QC and Paul Mason.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2016

A Juilliard ensemble played a Haydn string quartet, and later Alfred published a collection of encomia.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

He also wrote hymns, paeans, dithyrambs, odes for processions, songs of maidens, mimic dancing songs, drinking songs, dirges and encomia, or panegyrics on princes.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir